Given the current gloom and doom, I decided to put the info from Bilko's excellent archive into Excel and see what Noble's record is with Wigan. The following info is for the regular rounds only, the play-offs would add 4 more wins and two more defeats.



P80 W42 D4 L34 F1899 A1770 +129



Win % = 52.5



So basically since Noble has been in charge we've won just over half the games we've played.



Our win % in each of his seasons is:



2006 - 61.1%

2007 - 55.6%

2008 - 48.1%

2009 - 37.5%



It's not pretty reading and it shows we've regressed each year in terms of results, despite being able to get a couple of play-off wins to make it look respectable at the end of the season. It just confirms to me we give ourselves far too much to do at the "business end of the season", and while you win the comp in Sept and Oct, you can certainly give yourself too much to do to win it in Feb, Mar and Apr.

Seems to be a pattern building.

His record is gradually getting worse year on year aswell which isn't too encouraging when you'd hope it would be getting better due to him having abit more salry cap cash at his disposal as the years have gone by. His squad is probably the biggest it's been in his time and he's not having the injurt troubles that dogged Millward and Betts.



The Easter period is going to be huge for Nobles future imo. It's unlikely we'll pick up any points over that period and dependant of the nature of defeat he could well be out of the door.

Like the attendance pattern too

anybody see a pattern? at this rate we won't make the play off's this year at all!!

Cheers for those stats. Very interesting



And more proof that Brian's time is up

And to summarise: Taxi for Noble!

In these times of economic crisis!



I'd rather give him a piggy back

I can think of one poster on here who'd offer Noble a ride bare back

Those stats aren't reflective of the whole 2009 season obviously but so far it's quite alarming

you have to look at who we've played so far. are the more challenging games still to come?

Definitely.